(g) The observer for Chile (on behalf of a cross regional group of countries)

The two transnational criminal groups are sophisticated and operate internationally.

This measure is particularly important in view of the fact that corruption is almost invariably used by organized criminal groups in their operations, particularly those of a transnational nature.

The two transnational criminal groups also use the existing international maritime shipping lines and port facilities.

Noting the transnational nature of organized crime and the tendency of organized criminal groups and terrorist groups to expand their illegal operations,

Canada's delegate to P8 Senior Expert Working Group on Transnational Organized Crime

Transnational networks of terrorist groups have global reach and make common cause to pose a universal threat.

PARIS G 8, G 5, G 20, G 2, G 3, and now the G 14 (the G 8 plus the G 5 plus Egypt) never have the mathematics of world order seemed more complex and confusing.

This was regarded by our Group as the first step in the right direction.

Reference was made to the increasing number of smaller groups involved in transnational organized crime.

Mr. LOZANO (Mexico) stated that an attempt should be made to eradicate tax havens and the influence of certain transnational corporations which sometimes served as accomplices.

GROUP OF 27 OF THE GROUP OF 77

Transnational networks of terrorist groups profess a desire to acquire nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and to inflict mass casualties.

The organized criminal groups, of which the Monitoring Group has identified two local and two transnational criminal groups, have existing infrastructure or clandestine pathways to move the arms from source to recipient.

Transnational corporations are not a uniform group, all behaving in an identical manner and pursuing identical objectives.

In that regard, Nepal was committed to working with other States in order to defeat the activities of transnational organized criminal groups.

164. In many countries, criminal organizations and drug trafficking syndicates with transnational links represent a major threat to both Governments and peoples.

Given the profound and deepening gulf between the States of the G7 and later, the G8 and the sufferings of the majority of the peoples of the South, the victims have declared themselves in overt rebellion against and defiance of the lead role of the transnational capitalist monopoly.

Group of Thirty

THE GROUP OF 77

Remarks by regional groups or other groups of States

Transnational networks of terrorist groups have acquired global reach and made common cause in posing threats to democracy, peace and security within, and among, States.

We welcome the hosting by the Russian Federation of a G 8 transnational crime conference at the ministerial level in Moscow in 1999.

WEOG Western Europe and other group

There are reports of armed groups, including FNL, who continue illegally to cross the border between Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Cross border movements of armed groups have been observed between Burundi and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

We've seen this in terms of the G20 usurping very rapidly the position of the G7, or the G8.

Group of Eight

Group of Twenty

Transnational criminal empires and terrorist networks must be dismantled so that they could not have a negative impact on development.

Group of 77 and China

WFP and the United Nations Development Group (UNDG)

Since organized transnational crime respected no boundaries, the United States submitted that the first priority of the international law enforcement community was the dismantling of organized transnational crime groups through improved coordination of international and domestic investigations.

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The representative of Ethiopia fully associated his delegation with the statements made by the Group of 77 and China, the African group and the LDC group.

(Eastern European Group)

(African Group)

The Western Group will meet in room 1, the Group of 21 here in this room and the Eastern European Group in room C.108.

Ms. Andrianantoandro (Madagascar), speaking on behalf of the Group of African States, said that the Group wished to associate itself with the statement made by the representative of Jamaica on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.

It firmly supported the position of the Group of 77 on that issue.

The representatives of the Bahamas (on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States), Indonesia (on behalf of the Group of Asian States), Belgium (on behalf of the Group of Western European and Other States), Morocco (on behalf of the Group of African States) and Poland (on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States) also spoke.

The representative of South Africa associated his delegation fully with the statements made by the Group of 77 and China, the African group and the LDC group.

The United Kingdom, by accident of calendar, is in the presidency of the Group of Seven Group of Eight (G 7 8).

United Nations Development Group

Group of 77 (at the ambassadorial level)